>Integrated circuits are nowhere near what's possible. Brains are possible. Brains send signals at roughly the speed of sound. Copper wires send signals at roug

>Integrated circuits are nowhere near what's possible. Brains are possible. Brains send signals at roughly the speed of sound. Copper wires send signals at roughly the speed of light. It's unlikely something much like a brain couldn't use copper wires, it's just too hard for us to build yet. in theory, sure. But we don't know much at all about how brains operate, as far as I know, or how to construct artificial brain-like machines; for that matter, as far as I know, the only ways we've been able to connect a brain made in the traditional way to a computer is through existing senses or through emulating existing senses in a way that isn't higher bandwidth. (Like cochlear implants are fucking amazing.... but it turns out, as far as I understand, that they aren't any higher bandwidth than regular ears. There's also been similar work that is semi-successful at giving people something like sight... but none of these technologies give me the ability, say, to acquire textual data faster than reading a book.)